College life is full of petty abuses, some of which can be remedied and some of which seem inherent in the life itself and consequently bound to stay. Of those which can be remedied, the greater part begin at the opening of the term and, unless checked then and there, continue through the year. Most of them seem trivial, but they nevertheless take away a great deal of the pleasure and profit of the course. Our attention has been called to the fact that there are men in some of the philosophy and economics courses, where the matter in hand is apt to be abstruse, who repeatedly keep the class waiting while they ask questions about little technicalities which are entirely subordinate. Of course questions are all right in their place, and questions of a general character are certainly in place during a recitation or lecture. But when a man asks about little points which interest him alone, his thirst for knowledge is rendering him decidedly obnoxious. This is what is happening very frequently at present. Where only a year is given to courses covering immense amounts of matter, a class has no time to wait till every individual is absolutely sure of every point. A few minutes might well be given at the close of each hour for private conference between instructor and pupil, and the class thus freed from this unnecessary drawback. Unless some such plan is adopted, the courses where these thieves of time are present must be much less valuable than they otherwise would be.